This forms part of the interdisciplinary research seminar series on Greece, Rome, and Media Theory to run online this term.

From Winckelmann’s Albani Antinous to Freud’s Gradiva, by way of the Parthenon frieze, Classical marble reliefs could be said to be constitutive of the Antique. Yet despite their ubiquity – and their critical role within our histories of Classical art – reliefs are barely mentioned in our primary sources and are surprisingly under-theorized within the history of art. Hovering as it does between two and three dimensions, simultaneously asserting and effacing its material and representational status, relief nevertheless presents a particularly interesting case for theories of media, especially given its significance for technologies of stamping, imprinting, and recording, not to mention models of mind.

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